ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

C1&2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 108-1

Understory vegetation response to mechanical mastication treatments: Evidence for increasing resilience to wildfire in a young ponderosa pine forest
Jeffrey M. Kane, Humboldt State University; J. Morgan Varner III, Mississippi State University; Eric E. Knapp, USDA Forest Service

8:20 AM

COS 108-2

Effects of forest fuel reduction on fire severity and long-term carbon dynamics across three Pacific Northwest ecosystems
Stephen R. Mitchell, Duke University; Mark E. Harmon, Oregon State University; Kari E. B. O'Connell, Oregon State University

8:40 AM

COS 108-3

After the Biscuit Fire: Does wildfire meet our dead wood goals?
Diane E. White, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest; Patricia A. Martinez, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest

9:00 AM

COS 108-4

Logging exacerbates the effects of fire exclusion on stand density in ponderosa pine forests of the Northern Rockies over the long term
Cameron E. Naficy, University of Colorado; Anna Sala, University of Montana

9:20 AM

COS 108-5

Leaf litter chemistry affects fire behavior in eastern deciduous forests
Aaron D. Stottlemyer, Clemson University, Silviculture and Ecology Laboratory; Patrick H. Brose, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station; G. Geoff Wang, Clemson University; Thomas A. Waldrop, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Forest Disturbance Science

9:40 AM

COS 108-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 108-6

Correcting for spatial autocorrelation in statistical tests: Ways to deal with low-replication field experiments
Jacob F. Pollock, University of California; Dan Doak, University of California

10:10 AM

COS 108-7

Seasons within the wildfire season: Marking weather-related fire occurrence regimes
Scot D. Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Randy G. Balice, Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:30 AM

COS 108-8

Quantifying the multiscale environmental controls on wildfire using species distribution models
Marc-André Parisien, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service; Max A. Moritz, University of California, Berkeley

10:50 AM

COS 108-9

Linking fire to climate in the Florida Everglades using cellular automata, evolutionary algorithms, and empirical likelihood
Brian Beckage, The University of Vermont; Scott M. Duke-Sylvester, Emory University; Louis Gross, University of Tennessee; Chris Ellingwood, University of Vermont

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